open door = cooler!

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Malak

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Jul 30, 2008
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North Central CT
I've been using my corn rated multi-fuel stove for over two years now and always assumed
that when I was in a borderline overfire situation, that merely opening the door to spray some
water in, was letting more oxygen in, but tonight I noticed a clear drop in pipe temp when I
opened it. I guess it makes some sense since the door being closed allows the heat to be
more contained and increases the chimney effect thereby sucking in more air from the
bottom! Live and learn.

P.S. - trying out "Heat smart" sawdust bricks for the first time, and they are great! Five of
them at once maintains a nice steady ideal temp. Fluctuates alittle, but never out of range!

http://www.applingpellets.com/bricks.html
 
Think you are on the wrong forum??? This should be asked in the hearth, but before you leave one question, "What the heck are you doing spraying water on your stove?" Surefired way to scald yourself and even cause the castings to crack or warp. You need to control the fire with the air intake controls, not a bottle of water. The bricks are for use in a "woodstove", if this is a pellet type stove you are using an inappropriate fuel and could be in serious trouble if the fire gets away.

Pellets for pellet stoves, bricks for solid wood fuel stoves.
 
I thought I did post in hearth, but a mod moved it.

This is not a "pellet" stove. I was merely using pellets and corn as fuel. It is openbox
and you can use anything but coal. :)
 
Oh, and I use a mister to control temps along with air control. Trust me, air control is not
enough in certain situations. Corn burns hot! But that is all the past now. I love the sawdust
bricks.
 
Malak said:
Oh, and I use a mister to control temps along with air control. Trust me, air control is not
enough in certain situations. Corn burns hot! But that is all the past now. I love the sawdust
bricks.

?????????????

Just don't get it!
 
I suppose you could say that it's priceyer than wood. But at least they are more consistant.
Even wood can vary and cause an overfire.
 
Guess I better be nice, my last post vanished in to the ether. This is a woodstove issue about stove bricks made by a pellet company. Think the boys and girls on the hearth should tackle this. Those astute readers in the pellet heads have all praised the appropriate dieties that this clucker is not a neighbor.
 
Ok, wtf is the deal with the personal attacks? Sorry if I don't know
everything already. That is why we have forums. And it's a holiday
to top it off. So I burned pellets in my woodstove. What's the big deal?
It worked great!
 
Just for giggles, Malak, why don't you start a thread on the Stove Forum about using a spray bottle of water to control over firing. It certainly would be interesting to see the reaction over there. Personally, and I do mean personally, your post, stove and manner just don't add up for me. If you have been around for over two years, you haven't learned much, or really thought our opinions were bogus. If you are getting ready to hawk your "stoves", again wrong forum.
 
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm as real as the sky is blue and I have not burned my house
down yet. Also, I learned about using atomized water from someone HERE most likely.
Did not know it was not majority opinion. The volume of water is a huge factor. You are
not going to warp your stove by dropping it 10-20 degrees in a spot at once. I'm talking
about a situation where you just want to drop the temp 50 degrees or so and you start
with air control, but if you go too far you will have sooty glass and maybe no more fire.
The plant mister allows you to finesse it down and salvage the fire and your view of it
thru the glass. If the "experts" think it is a no-no, then by all means ignore my two years
of using it sucessfully.
 
Furthermore, I just measured the amount of water that comes out. It barely
cover the bottom of a shot glass. Do the math on that. ;-p
 
Don't let these guys bother you malak,i think they are gearing up to be moderators on this forum.
 
They don't bother me as I LOVE to argue and will never be worn-out by naysayers.
If I think you proved me wrong, I will admit it. But I don't care if 98% of all
replies disagree with me because it does not mean they are correct. The earth
used to be "flat", remember? ;-) I've had 80 people against me on unrelated topic
threads and you would not believe how many people PM'd me how much they
admired me afterwards, but did not have the balls to rock the boat. We can all
learn from each other just like my computer teacher did when he told me "you
can't do that - it won't work" and I proved him wrong. When my fellow alarm tech
told me there was no way my program could erase CSM passwords, but it did.

Oh, and here is a thread where a fireman mentions throwing more water than
I use down a chimney: https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/21035/P0/
 
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